mike: good evening, welcome to washington. i m mike emanuel in for bret baier border crossing set another record. highly total ever recorded for december. with the new year combings new laws. we will tell you where minimum wage is up and which states are implementing new gun restrictions and bret baier takes a look at the rise of internet use and data centers have increasing number of those facilities are impacting the electric grid. but, first, breaking tonight, president joe biden says his favorite memory of the year is bringing jobs back to the u.s. he also says the country is in a better position to lead the world than any other nation. the president s new year s message comes amid low approval numbers u.s. handling of the war in israel and the crisis at our southern border. the first family scheduled to return tomorrow to washington after a week long caribbean vacation. lucas tomlinson is travel with the president and reports from st. croix. good evening, lucas. mike
the president says he is ordering new rules to track and monitor such devices. we he have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon on more on what the defense department knows and does not know about what is in the skies. first up, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich with the president s message. good evening, jacqui. hey, good evening, mike. president biden revealed the three objects shot down since friday were most likely tied to private companies or research institutions. but he defended his choice to blast them out of the sky following chinese spy balloon. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazard to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. critics watching the president s remarks say he missed a golden opportunity to drive home the threat about china s spy program. in the last several weeks. i have been informed this is a program that our country has kno
live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking right now, an unprecedented move republicans trying to expel three democratic lawmakers in tennessee for protesting gun violence on the state house floor after the nashville shootings. hundreds packing the state house to protest one of the democrats being targeted calls today s vote, quote, morally insane. and court dates are on a collision course with campaign events in 2024 as attorneys for former president donald trump try to delay his trial until the primaries. the new reporting on what s happening with cases targeting trump in both georgia and d.c., and why atlanta officials are closely watching the manhattan case as it unfolds and the horrific reporting out of baltimore, a years in the making report that accuses the catholic archdiocese of turning a blind eye to hundreds of cases of child sex abuse by priests and others in the words of the attorney general, church leaders were more concerned with avoiding scandal
is over. just ask the falcons, one second they were almost super bowl champs and the next thing you know they are watching brady hold the trophy. you can t brag about a victory that hasn t happened. and you can t hype up a bill that hasn t done a darn thing yet. unless you are joe biden. today our commander-in-chief, who is taking a victory lap over his massive infrastructure spending bill. my partisan infrastructure law that i signed and it was a once in a generation investment in our nation s roads, bridges, railroads, ports, airports, water systems, and high speed internet, i really mean it. this is like a new industrial revolution. jesse: primetime launched an investigation into joe biden s new industrial revolution. a trillion dollars and a year later, and biden s broken ground on one project. a heated sidewalk in a small new hampshire town. and the project is not even close to finished and it won t be before winter. the city of berlin, new hampshire, has a 17% pov
on your wallet. president biden will announce a move to help keep energy prices down for americans less than three weeks before the all-important midterm elections. the president will announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic preserve. of course, in the past few days gas prices have been dropping in some areas but on average they re still up 17 cents a gallon from a month ago. of course, the cost at the pump factors into the economic worries voters will carry to the polls and could be a problem for democrats since they re the party in power. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. phil, what do we expect to hear from the president? you know, ana, not a lot of levers the president can pull in an international economy and global market like the oil market. this, what the president will announce is one of them. both an actual action, announcing the sale of another 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve but also in sending